CVE-2021-29266

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CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

EPSS

<1%p24

Published

Mar 26, 2021 (Mar 26, 2021)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.9. drivers/vhost/vdpa.c has a use-after-free because v->config_ctx has an invalid value upon re-opening a character device, aka CID-f6bbf0010ba0.

Vendors: linux
Products: linux kernel
Weakness: CWE-416
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.3%)

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